Break the Rules
2026
Running Out of Time, Leigh A. Schmidt
My Wife is a Cloud, Jonathan Ukah
Dada for Poets, Frank William Finney
Norwich Connecticut - A Series of Obituaries, Douglas J Walters
Bobby, Me and the Cane, Sharon M. Carter
You Have to Understand, Heather L. Rollins
Red Roses in Winter, Jennifer Gawinski Cuming
Speech to the Association of American Prosecutors, Lewis Leicher
By the Canal, Frederick Pollack
Rule Followers, Paweł Grajnert
Hooray for Hurley!, Dominick Lucyk
Dispassionate Deity, James P. Kotsybar
Marriage Guidance, Geoffrey D. Palmer
Mirror at the End of the Road, Heather Wiedenhoft
How not to write a short story, Tim Webster
The Betrayal, Rebecca Hamlin Green
The Library Manager’s Greatest Adventure, Richard Band
How an Ancient Royal Typewriter Caused the Death of Dolores Wainwright, Ronald Wolff
Structured Query Literature, Evan Manfrediz
Skinny Parental Palindrome, John Peter Beck
Skinny Pi-thy Comparison, John Peter Beck
Breaking the Rules, Gloria Heffernan
All pieces awarded from the Break the Rules contest are published online at the links above.
They are also featured in the Four Tulips print and digital anthologies, available SOON!